
15 The Witch Queens
Anna and Kristoff were stunned by Jack's confession. Anna quickly grasped Jack from his hoodies collar.
"What! What did you do to Elsa?" Anna insisted and shook Jack back and forth.
Jack shook his head and gritted his teeth together, "I sold her out. Evil Queens have her now and... her hate, it corrupted her heart." Jack whispered.
"She hates me," he said and his voice broke down.
Anna threw Jack to ground. Jack didn't even care of his injuries, how much they hurt. He was panting on the ground and pushing his upper body up. Little while later he managed to stand. He took his staff from the ground while Anna glared at him.
"She should hate you! And no...my sister isn't evil – no matter what you say!" Anna insisted and crossed her arms.
Jack bit his bottom lip. He had seen the change in Elsa. A change which he caused to happen, even though he had changed his mind on letting them to have her. He hated himself even, for how he used to say that she was a good girl and not evil like she was afraid to be.
"Well we better get going to take her back home with us," Anna announced and took Kristoff's arm.
They began to walk away, Sven licked the back of Jack's hand. He just stood there, staring at the ground. For his own personal gain, just for that. No wonder Bunny was mad back then. And even at this time he didn't get anything from doing something stupid.
Jack sighed and turned around. "Wait I'll go with you," he shouted and took couple steps.
Then he smelled it. A glimpse of freezing weather approaching. His ears heard how the leaves were crystallizing, the animals letting out their last warm breathes. Jack run, right in front of Anna and Kristoff and spreading his arms.
"You need to get out from here!" He gasped.
"I think that you have done enough," Kristoff's voice was sad. Jack felt like a nice guy before but now he couldn't trust him.
"You don't understand. She's using her ice powers! A worse weather than ice age is coming this way!" Jack shouted.
Anna stood still. Could he be saying the truth or lying?
"Yeah right," Anna laughed sarcastically and passed Jack.
Then they heard the loud roar of kind, if they didn't knew better they would've thought that it was a predator which was fiercely groaning and coming way. However Anna knew that sound, she had heard it before but not as bad as this time. The way how extreme cold weather hits together with warmer, like an explosion and spreading.
"H-he is right... something bad is coming," Anna gasped.
Jack had pulled Sven closer from his leash.
"Climb on Sven and ride that way!" Jack said and pointed at the mountains on their far right behind.
"Why there!" Anna shouted over the noise. Jack heard the little sound of the ground frosting, coming closer and closer, taking all the life of the living away.
"There's friends. A dragon rider and an archer. Tell that Jack sent you. I'll come after you," Jack told them quickly as they climbed on Sven. There was room for just two, Sven licked Jack's cheek and then he hit Sven's behind and made it storm forward.
"What about you!" Kristoff yelled to Jack who stood still. The freezing cold wall was now a fume, lingering behind Jack. The trees froze above him.
"I'm already dead!" Jack yelled a reply.
Kristoff saw how Jack's clothes formed more frost as the ice traveled under his bare feet. Then he started to run. He used his ice powers to create a skating path for him, there wasn't much left but he had to use every bit he had to follow them. Restraining Elsa's power for reaching them was tiring but gladly the fact that he was the Jack Frost helped him to cope with Elsa's magnificent ice power. Even though he was a bit worried.
Jack couldn't save the little squirrel in the tree who froze while protecting it's younglings from cold. Her tiny babies froze under her furry tail. Jack gritted his teeth together, this was his fault – how animals and people were suffering. He heard a timber man in the distance, chopping wood while they run. Without the cause to protect Anna and Kristoff who were escaping he would've gone to that man and told him to leave but now he must have frozen, in the middle of raising his axe to chop a block of wood.
Finally the mountain was up ahead, the place where Hiccup had landed with Toothless. He just hoped that he would be there still as if he had hunched that something would go wrong. Hiccup was a smart chief after all.
Sven paused when he saw a large creature with bright green eyes staring at him. Anna yelped by the sight of a thing she had never seen before. Toothless, a real life dragon. Gladly the ice stopped by the bottom of the mountain as they had made their way up.
Jack fell to ground next to Sven, he felt exhausted and his injuries weren't healing as fast as they usually would have. The lack of children believing in him was taking its toll, now he was on the same line with the rest of the guardians since he had taken the oath back then. He was panting and clutching staff of his in his hand.
Hiccup looked at the strangers questioning, then he went to Jack who had brought them here.
"What happened? Where's that girl who was with you before?" Hiccup asked from Jack while he handed some water for him.
Hiccup had brought Merida to the mountain and she was playing with Sven. They realized that no matter where they were, things wouldn't be different in Berk unless someone takes an act.
Jack explained what happened during the time which had passed from the moment when Hiccup had dropped Jack and Elsa to the mountain. He told him who the strangers with him were, Anna who is Elsa's sister and her husband Kristoff with his reindeer Sven. Hiccup wanted to smack Jack when he got to the part where Elsa had turned evil because of him.
"I know I'm worthless but I believe we can help her if we just get to her again," Jack exhaled the words that made Hiccup to stop from punching him.
"It is possible," Anna said and took the pebble which Pabby had given to her. She showed it to everyone.
"And what does that tiny pebble have to do with anything?" Merida groaned.
Anna shrugged, "Pabby told me that Jack and Elsa should touch the stone together. Even though I dislike him for the things he did I want him to have a chance to redeem himself by doing as Pabby said."
Anna looked keenly at Jack who sat on the ground while almost hugging his staff and his eyes laid down. Jack took eye contact with Anna when she spoke of redeeming himself. He nodded his head and agreed, even though Anna and even Elsa would probably never speak with him again after the things are fixed.
"Alright so we could just fly to there. Me and Anna with Toothless and Jack with his wind since you two seem to be the only people who can get some sense into the Ice Queen," Hiccup said and glanced down from the mountain.
The sight which was a ghostlike state of land, there were no animals to walk around, no sounds of trees nor birds to bring the music of nature to please ones ear. Just plain silence and frozen snowy lands as far as you could see – all the way to the castle of Arendelle where the new Witch Queen, the Ice Queen would be.
"I can't fly," Jack exhaled. "I can barely get any kind of ice magic out and I almost failed in restraining the ice from reaching Kristoff and Anna while they ran with Sven," Jack said with defeated voice. Admitting this hurt him each time. The powers which he loved were almost gone. Gone like his friend, Elsa.
Hiccup nodded his head and scratched his chin while wondering, "Well that's troublesome."
"We could get another dragon?" Merida suggested.
She knew that only way to go to the castle was them to be there together. They needed to be fast because otherwise they might end up as ice cubes.
Hiccup clapped his hands together. "Good idea Merida! But not every dragon accepts everyone...hmm" Hiccup wondered.
"So the thing has to like you?" Anna questioned. She got afraid that if she would go and find a dragon it would fry her if it didn't like her.
"I think dragons are somewhat similar to their rider. Like Hiccup and Toothless for instance – they're both extremely smart and a bit crazy!" Merida laughed and smiled a bit.
"That's it!" Hiccup cheered.
"S-sorry... that was a bit harsh to say that you're crazy," Merida sighed and rubbed her neck.
"The ice dragon had a baby couple years back!" Hiccup grinned and looked at Jack.
"Uh... the big one that sort of guards the other ones?" Jack asked.
Hiccup had taken him to the dragons nest once many years ago. There was a grand dragon that protected everyone.
"Yes! It had been taking care of her egg for centuries and it hatched just few years back!" Hiccup laughed.
"And?" Jack raised his eyebrow.
"Stupid. The dragon has ice powers like you," Merida huffed to Jack who frowned.
"Not just ice powers are similar. She is the future GUARDIAN of the dragons when she gets big enough. She loves to fly and is really the best jokester – big ice dragon is often in trouble when she does stupid stunts," Hiccup laughed.
"Are you sure that the dragons nest is fine when things are how they are in the country?" Kristoff questioned and Anna slapped his arm.
"Of course. The ice dragon is really powerful. What do you say Jack, will you want to go and see if she lets you ride it?" Hiccup smiled. He had always wished that instead of using wind Jack would try to ride a dragon just once.
"Umm..." Jack exhaled.
"She will live a long life and love you dearly. Just like Toothless!" Hiccup grinned. Jack saw the childlike Hiccup coming to surface, his excitement and desire for fun. It made Jack feel a bit more powerful.
"Fine, let's go," Jack smiled and got up. His wounds had healed because of Hiccup's outburst. He felt happy to see him like that instead of filled with sorrow.
He knew his mission now, he needed to find the rest of the Guardians and not to trust that the Witch Queens would just give them back if he did what they wanted. No, he needed to do thim by himself with the help of few friends. And there was one friend who still needed him, Elsa.
Hiccup saddled Toothless with the help of Jack and Merida. They lift off a moment later after the last strap was tightened as they were in a hurry. Merida noticed how Kristoff and Anna were staring down to the frozen land, towards the castle and Kristoff quietly whispering comforting words to Anna. Merida went beside them and placed her hand on Anna's shoulder.
"Thinks will be okay, I promise. Now...let's get out from the open," Merida smiled and looked at the castle as well.
And while they looked down to a thing they knew as disaster the Ice Queen was up in her tower. Her cold heart was bouncing as she watched the crystal clear, pure view without anything living as far as her eyes could see.
"Are you liking the sight you made Elsa?" Maleficent got closer to Elsa who stood on her balcony.
"Yes, very pleased--," she said while turning around and Maleficent had to jump back when she created sharp ice spikes from ground, aimed at her. "—but call me Ice Queen."
Maleficent grinned in satisfaction, they had made her as one of them.
"How delightful-," Maleficent said pleasantly, "—I would like you to meet few people."
Ice Queen nodded her head, her spiky black hair didn't move an inch with the nod. Her eyes were deeper than the coldest abyss when you looked at them.
"The other Witch Queens who will assist you when you help us destroy fun, dreams, joy, memories and hope from the world and get people as our fearful puppets!" Maleficent laughed and clapped her hands together.
Ice Queen watched how a large woman with grayish skin and deep red lips arrived, she laughed deeply and ran her hand through her white short hair.
"Ursula the Sea Witch," Maleficent introduced Ursula who went to stand next to her. Ursula didn't have her tentacles but she wore a black long dress to cover her body fat.
Next a slim woman walked in, wearing a purple gown. She smiled.
"I should be the fairest of them all," she laughed. "Just call me Evil Queen," she said and stood next to Maleficent.
"And the last and probably the least--," Maleficent said but couldn't finish.
"The Witch Doctor but you may call me Dr.Facilier," the slender black man said while taking Ice Queens hand in order to kiss the back of it.
However Dr.Facilier pulled his hand quickly back when it started to freeze. He waved it in the air and warmed it up by blowing in it.
"I probably won't bother to remember your names but you better remember me or I will destroy everyone of you. I felt good today, for throwing fun out from my life so that's why you're not frozen like the people of Arendelle are currently," Ice Queen said aloud.
"Yes your highness," they all bowed to the Ice Queen whose heart was a solid block of ice and not letting anyone in.
Ice Queen walked around them. Her ice heels were clicking against the rock floor with thin layer of cold substance covering it.
"Next thing what we're about to do is to start a war and take over nations," Ice Queen hummed.
"Corona and Berk are good starting points and we've already been at Berk playing a little," Dr. Facilier dared to say but Ice Queen froze his mouth shut.
"Ursula and Bitch Doctor will go to Corona, I trust Berk in your hands Maleficent. And Evil Queen shall stay and watch over my dear frosted kingdom," Ice Queen grinned.
Dr. Facilier was about to say something against the Ice Queen but he couldn't because his mouth was shut tightly by her. They decided to obey her orders because what would be better than fear and coldness combined – a thing that someone had been whispering to the Ice Queen in her childhood and then shared the information to Witch Queens.
A pair of yellow eyes was looking at the evil Witch Queens as they planned to destroy all the goodness from the world. How they could rule over the fearful land and for him, the master of fear it would be a good thing to feed from.
A/N:
Guess what you will see in next chapter!
Also I would appreciate some feedback of the book xD. The complexity of the book will slowly start to open up. It was done this way by purpose. It's confusing in some parts because the characters are confused like you are. But, how do you feel?
Lol. And yes, Dr Facilier - a man - is a witch queen.
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